Re: Metamorphosis

A couple of obscure words in your answer, Bobby...brest & clach. You must have a good dictionary.

brest (n: damage, injury, harm, wrong; failure, want) is in the O.E.D, and clach (same as clachan - a Scottish word for a small village) appears in the Chambers and Webster's Third New International Dictionary.

My solution is a couple shorter than yours and is quite different:

I've only just picked up my computer from the computer hospital (cpu was overheating very badly), so I haven't had time to look at your puzzle yet. Looks interesting...will tonight.

Last edited by phrontister (2010-03-25 13:55:19)

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Re: Metamorphosis

Computer's all fixed ...but my pocket is lighter . Computer can now render a video at a good rate and at the same time give me MIF time too.

I think that pluralizing simply by adding an 's' may be one of the banned suffixes ganesh had in mind. I'm not sure about tense and other simple suffixes (eg, aided, aider).

Not sure...give them the chop (but exactly which...could be messy), or maybe just allow everything (less mess)? A drawback in allowing these simple suffixes is that they reduce the challenge. But is that important?

Maybe just banning simple 1-letter suffixes like would be good...but what about 'n' (shown, flown). There are probably others, but I have to go and can't think of examples right now.

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Re: Metamorphosis

Hi Bobby,

The O.E.D. has virst as a southern Middle English variant of first. From there we can get verst, verse, terse, tense, tease etc; and so fourth, and so fifth (not to mention other intermediate routes)...until we can probably get to third after going around the world twice. I'm not even sure if such a tenuous variant existence is valid.

Re: Metamorphosis

Hi Bobby,

I had to resort to a lot of starnge words to get it done

I have two versions: one using plurals and one not. The is much more impressive because it's the longer of the two and (to me - probably not you) reads like it was compiled by a coiner of new words. Clearly my ignorance is the stumbling block here...they're probably all as common as dirt and are used everywhere.

FROM -> LOVE -> HATE

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Re: Metamorphosis

Hey gurthbruins! I don't want to sound an exponent here but you can go to the "profile" at the top of this page and edit your "signature" in the "personality" option.That way it'd be displayed below all your texts!

And that's too much of thanks already... buddy!

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and please make it "To open their..." etc

Last edited by ZHero (2010-05-10 02:04:50)

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Re: Metamorphosis

No Zhero, ope is correct, not open. (If ope was incorrect, so would oped be).

I always welcome advice, especially when I drive a car. That way I might go through fewer red lights. Even when it is not necessary.Fun(nily) enough, I just added a signature before I did this post, so presumably it will appear now. I will get around to the avatar soon, I promise.

The Shakespeare quote wasn't meant to be a signature, it was meant to defend my use of the word OPED !!!

Last edited by gurthbruins (2010-05-13 09:52:47)

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